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Marketing The Global Warming Monologue
What do you call a debate when only one side gets to talk? Uh-huh. It’s not a debate anymore, is it? 
Remember Gore declaring “The debate is over!“? Rhode Island’s Roger Williams University faculty took it to heart and made viewing his unscientific and alarmist film “required viewing.” So much for free and open debate. Here’s the clip of the news article. Read the whole thing for the brazen attempt and it’s subsequent exposure.
An RWU spokesman told me that the backlash against the required viewing of Gore’s movie prompted Dean Hughes to “explore alternatives” to teaching global warming. The spokesman said that one alternative includes the presentation this fall of the counter-alarmism movie, “The Great Global Warming Swindle,” a Channel 4 (U.K.) documentary that is best described as must-see global warming TV.
As the chastened Dean Hughes learned, while many people have made up their minds about global warming, many others have not. Further, there is evidence that, when presented with both sides of the debate, many believers end up changing their mindset from alarmism to skepticism about the alleged climate crisis.
Source: FOXNews.com - Junk Science: Climate-Controlled Classroom?
Word Of Warning: don’t tell Americans the debate is over before they’ve had a chance to join the discussion. Baad ju-ju.
I also wrote about another attempt and resulting backlash by another academic institution trying to keep any and all debate one-sided — theirs. Click here to read it.
By Walter |
Topics: Marketing Mishaps, Pet Peeves, Schadenfreude |
May 29th, 2007 at 8:36 am
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